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Making a Photoshop Frame Part 2

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How to Create a Frame Around a Picture with Photoshop Page 2
© John Corney 2007

In part 1 of creating a mat and frame with Photoshop we got as far as extending the canvas of the photo with white. Now we are going to create a new layer on which we will build our black border that will become the frame. The quickest way to do that is simply to type ctrl+j. Once you do that your image layers palette should look like this"





Next, select the Rectangular Marquee Tool from your tool box:



Click your mouse and draw a rectangle around your image in the white canvas area. Make sure there's approximately the same margin around all sides before you let go of the mouse button. After releasing the mouse you will see the marquee or "marching ants" around your photo like this:

We are now going to fill the area we have mapped out with the marquee with black. You can navigate to Fill as illustrated below, or simply type shift+F5 which is how I like to do it.




Make sure the fill settings are the same as you see below: black, normal mode, 100% opacity, and Preserve Transparency unchecked:


A this stage, your photo will be totally covered in black like mine below, but don't panic! We'll take care of that in the next post.


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Samoan Youth

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This young man was preparing with his friends for his moment of fame on the stage at the Samoan Village at the Polynesian dance festival called Pasifika in Auckland in March this year. Samoan Youth Canon EOS 20D 1/30sec at f/20 ISO 200 Canon 70-300mm lens at 300mm More photographs from the same Pasifika Festival day can be found in my new post, Faces of Pasifika 2007 — A Day at Auckland's Pacific Festival .
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The Watchman and Virgin River — Painterly Winter Landscape

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